Humanity
Adventures in Trail Running
“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” - Christopher McCandless from “Into the Wild”
By Jeff Barton19 days ago in Earth
From Hydrogen to Life: The Story of Matter
• • • We left off with a universe of stars, elements, and increasingly complex molecules forming on the surfaces of young planets. The process had already demonstrated a clear direction, from simple toward complex, from formless toward structured. But the most extraordinary chapter was still ahead.
By Han Elucidation21 days ago in Earth
Feels Like
Someone lower the broiler heat; we are starting to burn. It’s the 187th day of August here in Kansas. Yes, you read it correctly. If the temperatures are in “feels like” terms, so are the days in this month. Each day with these temperatures feels like a month on its own. We are cooking here, and it’s not steaks. Well, not the bovine steaks, anyway. I do feel like an overcooked sirloin. Does anyone have any gravy?
By Alexandra Grant23 days ago in Earth
T. Rex, Russia Sanctions, Hegseth Impeachment, and the Reiner Case
In this interview, Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner discuss T. rex body temperature, U.S. sanctions targeting Russian energy revenues, Thomas Massie’s impeachment effort against Pete Hegseth, global fuel pressures, and the Nick Reiner murder case. They also examine insanity defenses, Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial, and California’s death-penalty moratorium.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen23 days ago in Earth
How Humanity Learned to See the World
• • • For thousands of years, human beings looked at the world around them with curiosity and confusion. Trees, mountains, fire, water, the sun, the moon, earthquakes, lightning, each phenomenon seemed separate, disconnected, operating by its own mysterious logic.
By Han Elucidation28 days ago in Earth
The Primordial Cloud: Where Everything Began
• • • Go back far enough, roughly fifteen billion years, and the entire universe was a cloud of hydrogen. No stars. No planets. No elements heavier than hydrogen. No light in any meaningful sense. Just an immense, formless expanse of the simplest substance in existence: a single proton orbited by a single electron.
By Han Elucidation28 days ago in Earth
The Point of No Return
Since the mid twentieth century, human activity has driven long-term shifts in global temperatures and weather patterns. This happens primarily through deforestation, the release of greenhouse gases, and the burning of fossil fuels. Gases released into the Earth's atmosphere act as a blanket, trapping these gases and warming the surface of the Earth. The world's most respected scientific institutions reached the same unanimous conclusion: human activity is the most prominent cause of global warming since the pre-industrial era. As of March 2026, every major global scientific institution has confirmed that climate change has reached the point of no return: when climate systems undergo changes that become impossible to reverse. ________________________________
By choreomaniasabout a month ago in Earth
Who Should Pay to Power Georgia's AI Boom?
Thesis Georgia should welcome innovation—including AI and data centers—but the costs of powering that growth should be allocated fairly. The PSC's job is not to stop economic development; it's to ensure that growth strengthens the grid without shifting unnecessary costs and risks onto families and small businesses.
By Caleb Scottabout a month ago in Earth
